Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last September, Hussein flew to Teheran for secret talks with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. In December, Feisal paid his own visit to the Shah, where the two settled an old dispute over offshore oil rights in the Persian Gulf. The oil-rich gulf, in fact, is doubtless one key element in all the royal rambling, for with Britain considering withdrawal from its bases at Bahrein and Aden, an informal understanding today could become a formal pact tomorrow if leftists try to push the Nasserite cause in the region...
Ahead were more talks between the monarchs. Iran's Shah will soon repay the visits by Hussein and Feisal with trips to their capitals...
...Shah's three predecessors were murdered), the process will be long and hard. "There are risks involved in instituting democracy at this time," Maiwandwal explained last week. "But they are calculated risks. The people will have to come to understand more about the processes...
Power & Pingpong. For 30 years, the King had put up with despotic rule. When he came to power in 1933 after his father's assassination, Zahir Shah let his uncles run the country while he played games and grew vegetables. In 1953 Zahir Shah's cousin, Prince Mohammed Daoud, took over and continued the tough stuff. Secret police snooped everywhere; the press was heavily censored. After Daoud quarreled with his finance minister, that official and his family disappeared. Balding, haughty and highhanded, Daoud alienated Afghanistan's slowly developing intellectual class and won the distaste-if not outright...
...rising just as powerfully was resentment at Daoud's dictatorial ways, and in 1963 Zahir Shah forced his cousin to retire. For the first time in Afghan history, a commoner, Mohammed Yusuf, was appointed Prime Minister; his main job was to oversee the drafting of a new constitution. What evolved is a document that brings the criminal code into the 20th century and forbids members of the royal family to serve in either the Cabinet or the 216-seat Wolesi Jirga (People's Council or Parliament). Though the King may veto laws, the Parliament can overrule him with...